When libelf is not used, perf cannot not show symbol names since it
doesn't access the ELF symbol table. But kernel is different as it
can fallback to kallsyms.
It worked w/o libelf, but recent change to use vmlinux for kernel
symbols break it.
With this change, it now can show kernel symbols again:
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ....... ................. ........................
#
34.51% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
12.54% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] generic_exec_single
10.11% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] int_sqrt
9.83% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] hrtimer_interrupt
7.25% emacs [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __switch_to
7.06% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_next_iomem_res
7.02% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] run_timer_softirq
2.55% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irq
1.90% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lapic_next_deadline
1.75% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock
1.49% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __schedule
1.20% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] read_tsc
1.10% sleep [kernel.kallsyms] [k] current_kernel_time
0.99% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] pick_next_task_rt
0.36% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] group_sched_in
0.24% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] x86_pmu_commit_txn
0.06% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_pmu_enable_all
0.03% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_pmu_enable_all
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
index c9541fea9514..226cf41ed7e6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
@@ -335,6 +335,9 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map
__maybe_unused,
unsigned char *build_id[BUILD_ID_SIZE];
int ret;
+ if (dso->kernel)
+ return 0; /* always use kallsyms */
+
ret = fd__is_64_bit(ss->fd);
if (ret >= 0)
dso->is_64_bit = ret;
--
2.1.2
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